Loranger Elementary School

As a sprawling K-5 school in Loranger, Louisiana, Loranger Elementary School instructs 800 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under Tangipahoa Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Loranger Elementary School sits 77% bigger than that benchmark.

Tangipahoa Parish runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 19,077 students. Loranger Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Loranger Elementary School logs that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 31% Black, 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Loranger Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.0%; this one delivers 29.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tangipahoa Parish put median household income runs about $56,760, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Loranger Elementary School is one of 33 public schools in Tangipahoa Parish (combined enrollment of about 19,077 students).

The closest other public school is Loranger Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Loranger Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 14.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 784 students in 2018 compared to 800 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 58% to 51% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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